#  Jason Ur 

Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology

 

 

 



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 smartphone [(617) 495-8920](<tel:(617) 495-8920>) 

 email <jasonur@fas.harvard.edu> 

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### Research and Teaching Interests

Ancient landscapes, archaeological survey, GIS and remote sensing, early complex society and urbanism, Near East, southern Caucasus.  
  
[**Jason Ur** ](https://jasonur.scholars.harvard.edu/)is Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specializes in early urbanism, landscape archaeology, and remote sensing, particularly the use of declassified US intelligence imagery. He has directed field surveys in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. He is the author of  *Urbanism and Cultural Landscapes in Northeastern Syria: The Tell Hamoukar Survey, 1999-2001* (2010). Since 2012, he has directed the [Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey](https://jasonur.scholars.harvard.edu//pages/erbil), an archaeological survey in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. He is also preparing a history of Mesopotamian cities.

[Curriculum Vitae](https://jasonur.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum6996/files/jasonur/files/jason_ur_cv.pdf)



 

 

 





 

 

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